Top 10 Reasons Viewers Leave Your Site

by Larisa Thomason,
Senior Web Analyst,
NetMechanic, Inc.

Do your site visitors stay for hours, happily reading your content, buying your merchandise, and admiring your design techniques? Or do they take one look, then laugh all the way to the next Web site? Check out our top 10 list to see why visitors don't last long on some sites.

10. There's a whole lot of blinking going on.  #10

9. They drowned in your splash page.   #9

8. They tripped over a broken link.  #8

7. Hansel and Gretel didn't leave a trail.  #7

6. They went blind from shock.  #6

5. They cut themselves on broken code.  #5

4. It looks like an old science experiment.  #4

3. How much is that browser in the window?  #3

2. They got to the good part of War and Peace.  #2

And the Number One reason that visitors leave your site....

1. You forgot to check the photo album!  #1

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